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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Drudgery',
	'<{subtitle}>' => 'Written in <span title="English Composition 2">ENGL 1102</span> by <a href="https://y.st./">Alex Yst</a>, finalised on 2018-02-07',
	'<{copyright year}>' => '2018',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<p>
	I wanted to go to college for a number of reasons.
	First of all, I thought it&apos;d help me learn to write software better.
	I wasn&apos;t quite sure what I&apos;d do with a computer science degree professionally, as my situation is a bit unusual.
	I&apos;m not likely to become a professional software developer because I can&apos;t stand the thought of my source code being hoarded by some corporation; I release all my source code publicly to anyone that wants it, and I don&apos;t see that changing any time before I die.
	Most modern software corporations aren&apos;t going to hire someone that won&apos;t sign away their copyrights to said corporation.
	However, the process of earning the degree could help me improve my skills so I could improve the code I write and release as a hobby.
	Second, I thought having a degree would improve my chances of finding a decent job.
	What kind of job?
	I wasn&apos;t sure.
	Perhaps I&apos;d go into something computer-related that didn&apos;t involve having to write code that&apos;d be locked away.
	Perhaps I&apos;d go into network administration or something.
	I wasn&apos;t sure what I wanted to make my money doing, but it was likely to require a formal education to get in the door.
	Third, and perhaps most importantly, it would be a story; an experience!
	I was excited to get a chance to make my way through the education system and write about how it was going as it happened.
</p>
<p>
	That only tells half the story though.
	You may have noticed that the previous paragraph is entirely in the past tense.
	There&apos;s a reason for that: it doesn&apos;t reflect the current state of things.
	To be honest, I&apos;m not sure why I still want to attend these courses, and much of the time, I <strong>*don&apos;t*</strong> want to.
	Due to the noxious policies of this school and the behaviour of some of the people working here, the coursework that originally excited me and spurred me to learn more has now been reduced to complete drudgery.
	I dread each coming week; I&apos;m usually excited to learn new things, but the school has drained my enthusiasm for learning.
	I don&apos;t even spend much time outside of class studying other things like I used to because I no longer have the energy to do so.
	To be clear though, it&apos;s not most of the staff that are a problem.
	It only takes a bad apple or two to mess everything up.
	My academic advisor has been awesome, as have most of my professors.
	Even the one problematic professor I recall didn&apos;t have enough of a negative impact on me to decimate my drive to learn like this.
	I guess my main reason for wanting to continue is to avoid giving up.
	I&apos;m not a quitter.
	Honestly though, I can&apos;t wait for this all to be over.
</p>
END
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